jononomo

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by jononomo 4y ago
People who take offense at what I have written are wrong to do so — and I’m not going to engage with you any further. Have a good day.
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by jononomo 4y ago
I object to this version because in my view "Jessica" is and always was a man. I understand that not everyone sees it this way, but that's the way I see it. I view biological sex to be a real fact about the world and it is u
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by jononomo 4y ago
I also remember when Google only used to have ads over to the side. I really don't like Google at all now and I'm switching to either DuckDuckGo or Bing.
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by jononomo 4y ago
I remember the feeling of magic when Google search first arrived.
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by jononomo 4y ago
Steve could work in Java/Python/C++/etc/etc/etc backward and upside down, but he was extremely happy with Fortran, from my brief discussion about it with him -- and if he had thought there was a better tool for appr
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by jononomo 4y ago
Doesn't "tolerant of poor programmers" just mean "even better for strong programmers"?
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by jononomo 4y ago
The best software engineer I ever worked with, whom I'll call Steve, ended up working in Fortran after we parted ways. He had a Ph.D. from Harvard in Computer Science and we met at a research lab at Harvard Medical School. Interestin
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by jononomo 4y ago
When I first decided to get into web development after taking a couple of years off from software (after doing Java development in the finance world) I started with Ruby on Rails because it was hot at the time. I spent several weeks going t
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by jononomo 4y ago
During 2021 I ate only beef, eggs, fish, and cheese and I drank a fair amount of milk. I ended the year in absolutely fantastic shape. Note that this was not a keto diet because of the carbs in the milk. But it was diet without any calor
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by jononomo 4y ago
Once I started eating only beef I noticed that I was just naturally hungry much less often. I've heard the same from other people who follow a diet of only red meat -- it is rare to eat more than twice a day. In fact, when I had to g
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by jononomo 4y ago
The entire crypto space is going to eventually be worth $0.
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by jononomo 4y ago
grains of sand are finite
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by jononomo 4y ago
That is 193 KPH -- seems pretty fast to me, even for the autobahn.
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by jononomo 4y ago
$8.5 million ought to be enough to buy a couple of hundred iPhones.
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by jononomo 4y ago
In my view, we should use nuclear power to desalinate seawater at scale, turn the Sahara Desert into a massive prairie, and raise a billion cattle there to help feed the world. We really need to move away from agriculture for environmental
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by jononomo 4y ago
In my view, we should use nuclear power to desalinate seawater at scale, turn the Sahara Desert into a massive prairie, and raise a billion cattle there to help feed the world. We really need to move away from agriculture for environmental
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by jononomo 4y ago
In his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant recounts going to Texas when he was with the army during the Mexican-American war in the 1840s and seeing a herd of horses so large that it extended from horizon to horizon. Even when they climbed to the top
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by jononomo 4y ago
It is important that all academics in America bow down to the dictates of Islam.
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by jononomo 4y ago
Next you'll be warning me about scurvy, lol
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by jononomo 4y ago
I remember when Google first arrived on the scene -- I had been using Alta Vista before then and Google's search was like a miracle. But Google these days just feels like Alta Vista in the 1999, except that the haystack is a lot bigge
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by jononomo 4y ago
I was recently listening to a podcast in which a professor was introduced as being the author of over 250 articles. I immediately discounted the guy as likely an unserious thinker. (It was Tim Rasinski being interviewed on The Literacy Vi
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by jononomo 4y ago
Hey, you basically worship credentials, so you're not going to be impressed with a person who doesn't have them regardless of their breadth and depth of knowledge. I don't know what to tell you.
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by jononomo 4y ago
depth and breadth of knowledge and deep curiosity and persistence.
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by jononomo 4y ago
You actually have to know what your'e talking about to be an expert, though.
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by jononomo 4y ago
I have been unimpressed with ChatGPT since it first arrived on the scene a few weeks ago and I'm a little astounded at how much hype it is getting. It is obvious to me that it is basically like talking to a stupid person who can'
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by jononomo 4y ago
You don't need fiber in your diet at all and when you remove it you will be amazed how much your digestion improves.
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by jononomo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
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by jononomo 4y ago
Some kids are prodigies. Here is a video of 9-year-old Taj Farrant playing the guitar like God made him for that purpose: https://youtu.be/E0eACoei1eo
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by jononomo 4y ago
Yes, he is the world's leading expert on this subject because credentials aren't everything
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by jononomo 4y ago
He is basically the world's leading expert, but you can only see credentials, lol.

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